Lee: Wow! What a success! You must be really pleased with your Paramongaia. Can you tell us again whether much rain falls on the containerized plant during the winter? And how cold is its coldest exposure outside? Cynthia W. Mueller >>> wpoulsen@pacbell.net 01/13/04 01:16AM >>> I can't believe it but two of my Paramongaia weberbauriis are flowering. One is open and the other is sending up a bud. The flower is fantastic! My Hippeastrum aulicum also flowered for the first time. --Lee Poulsen Pasadena area, California, USDA Zone 9-10 Paramongaia weberbaurii. This is an amazing flower with a very pleasant scent. First flowering for me. These grow outside all winter for me. Photos taken January 2004 by Lee Poulsen. The first image is of the bid before it opened. The citrus in the second image is to get a sense of the size of the flower (it's a mandarin orange my neighbor just picked off his tree). http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/… Hippeastrum aulicum. This is the first time mine has bloomed for me. It's kind of nice getting such a pretty Hippeastrum bloom naturally outdoors in the middle of winter. Photos taken January 2004 by Lee Poulsen. http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/… _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.ibiblio.org http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php